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I have read through your brief survey and have some concerns regarding it. The tenor and implied bias is distressing, for example: "Who do you think are the groups of people that are displaced or 'kicked out' of the neighbourhood because of 'gentrifiers'" Your questions imply that people are...

Beach Metro News has been covering this condo project at Gerrard and Main St.: Gerrard and Main Project Gets Green Light Letters to the Editor oppose condo

Merry Christmas and thanks for the interesting article. I check out the Grid occasionally, but would not have known about this article if you hadn't pointed it out. I thought it was a good piece of journalism that brought me up to speed on things in the area with regard to housing and...

Seriously, though. I do believe that all of the various identifiable funders of the usage of the park should be held legally responsible for the costs associated with the park's closure. I know that there was a statement from OPSEU about being open to talk about giving some money toward the...

The councillor will only know what the wishes of her constituents really are at the next election. Most of us probably don't call or write our local politicians to express our views every time an issue crops up. In some cases people don't care enough, or feel they have enough going on in their...

Beautiful job and a tribute to civic pride.

Okay, this is good. I'm interested in your fast pronunciation, and I'm wondering if you are one of those elusive "Trana" [sic] people that are referred to with that spelling. I'm assuming that, as a couple of us spoke of above, that your Tr- is probably actually a Chr-. Is the ending actually...

Agreed. This thread is now so totally off topic as to be distressing. The thread subject is purely linguistic and for interpersonal comparisons (e.g. I say it this way, how do you say it?), not about race, ethnicity, diversity, multiculturalism or intercity comparisons. Perhaps you have too, but...

Great post; thanks. It's great to hear from people who grew up in the neighborhood. As I said in an earlier post this year, I am succumbing to the name Upper Beach for lack of common usage of anything else at this point. Even Perly's and Google Maps use the Upper Beach label (but with -es on the...

I think most agree that the Upper Beach area borders are: West=Coxwell (or Woodbine), East=Victoria Park, North=CN Railroad tracks north of Gerrard, South=Kingston Rd. It seems the only question is whether the Upper Beach area extends west of Woodbine to Coxwell. I walk these streets every day...

Okay, just to get us back on topic here. Is it just me who believes he hears some people pronouncing Toronto as "Cheronno" /tʃƏ'rɔno/? I'd be willing defer to the majority on this one. However I will begin by saying that I believe "Cheronno" /tʃƏ'rɔno/ is what I here from many people if I listen...

How do you pronounce Benlamond Ave? James Lamond Smith and Benjamin Morton were the instigators and developers of the hamlet located in east Toronto called Benlamond, which soon became amalgamated into the Village of East Toronto (1888-1908). Lamond Smith's surname originated from the Gaelic...

Friends of Glen Davis Ravine link to local group concerned with this enclave of the Upper Beach http://www.friendsofglendavisravine.ca/ If you are a TPL user, you can acces a nice local book on the ravine area: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=2628557

580-592 Kingston Rd. Good Links on the proposed 6-storey condo: http://www.friendsofglendavisravine.ca/ http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/cityscape/2011/08/04/glen-davis-development/...

580-592 Kingston Rd. 580-592 Kingston Road I'm surprised there is nothing on the site in the project node about this, since the proposed 6-storey condo has caused such controversy before and since last municipal elections. There have been community fundraisers, local and citywide newspaper...

I'm about 50/50 with how I say Toronto. If it's slow, it's To-ron-to, and if it's fast it's To-ronno. I wouldn't get hung up on it either way. Sometimes even careful speakers say "gonna" instead of "going to" in quick, fluid speech. It's a natural process of language with words in common use...

Like many Torontonians, I watched the proposals for the renovation of the ROM with great interest, as well as the ongoing soap opera of the relationship between the staff and previous directors over the past 15 years or more. I was excited at the idea of the "crystal" and still recall looking at...

This thread has been inactive for a while, so I thought I'd add my thoughts to it to keep it running. It started with a discussion on the name of the neighborhood -- something I have thought about often since moving to East Toronto. Although initially quite opposed to the name Upper Beach due to...